Figurine

Name/Title

Figurine

Entry/Object ID

2004.43.14

Description

Felt bust of a woman. The face is artistically structured with a distinct seam beneath the eyebrows and needle-felting lines along the sides of the nose to the bottom of the chin. The felt is painted to resemble white skin, with pink lips and brown eyebrows. Eyes are created with blue sequins as irises and lacquered embroidery thread as eyelashes. The figure has brown hair made of thread. The body is covered in a partial garment made of white cotton with a white cotton neckerchief. The bust is wearing a headdress consisting of sheer white fabric draped over a conical hat extending back from the head. The hat is framed with gold braid trim. The bust is inserted into a Styrofoam base with two metal wires. The base has a paper label that reads, “#11 15thc FLEMISH-HENNIN".

Use

Made to illustrate fashionable headwear of the fifteenth century

Context

Made by Mirren Barrie of Waterbury Center, Vermont

Acquisition

Accession

2004.43

Source or Donor

Staudt, Jane M.

Acquisition Method

Gift

Made/Created

Artist

Barrie, Mirren (1915-2004)

Place

Town

Waterbury

County

Washington County

State/Province

Vermont

Country

United States of America

Continent

North America

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Tertiary Object Term

Figurine

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Statue

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Sculpture

Nomenclature Class

Art

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects